If you have any interest in art, Madrid is an imperative, with the Prado and Reina Sofia.

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Did you catch Mary Sully show at Met, “Native Modern”? Ledger Drawing style meets Florine Stettheimer, here’s “Fred Astaire “ and “Busby Berkeley “

Kinks
Everclear
Nirvana

I felt it too, just like when I grew up in Seattle.

I looked at the Helmi Biese above and thought it looked like ….. a Lois Dodd!

There’s something ecstatic in these; they evoke the same sense of wonder that big Burchfields do.

It rhymes with Musk’s demolition of Twitter immediately upon acquisition. Or Zuck’s old chestnut about moving fast and breaking things. Only here the breaking is the objective. But the destruction won’t tank Trump’s approval; it’s all performance for his followers.

Your paining threads are themselves works of art.

I don’t know if Sargent ever said that but he definitely knew of it given his Spanish travels. A few years ago MFA loaned it to Prado so they could be in the same room. Someone who saw them said Sargent’s held its own.

I would make the ‘70s the starting point: Alice Waters in Berkeley, a number of similar restaurants around Cambridge and Boston and Seattle, Julia Child starting in 60’s, Joyce Chen on tv late 60’s.

Some of my favorites are her songs that meld with earlier tunes: Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody, Harry’s House-Centerpiece